Professor Robert Weisberg comments on an unusual case wherein three guards at Santa Clara County Jail have been charged with the murder of an inmate for KQED.

In a jailhouse interview, Rafael Rodriguez, one of three Santa Clara County Jail guards facing murder charges in the alleged attack of a mentally ill inmate, says he is innocent. The interview was conducted by the Bay Area News Group.

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Robert Weisberg, a Stanford Law School professor specializing in criminal justice, said the prompt action by the sheriff’s office and the arrests themselves were “extremely unusual.”

“It’s remarkable for jail officers to be arrested for homicide and especially for murder is pretty much unheard of,” Weisberg told KQED’s Devin Katayama. …